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- Title
EL ZIGURAT Y LA ESPIRAL. CAMINOS CRUZADOS EN LA CONFIGURACIÓN DEL MUSEO MODERNO.
- Authors
Falcón Meraz, José Manuel
- Abstract
The start of the Vanguards marked a period of crisis for the museum and its architecture. However, there would exist visionary proposals made by the greatest architects of the time such as Le Corbusier and Wright. Through their graphic legacy, the coincidences and differences of their solutions based on the ancestral forms of the ziggurat and the spiral, used as a typological innovation will be explained. Le Corbusier tested his exhibition space in the social areas of his houses and continued drawing and varying its archetypal museum as a ziggurat, to be compacted into the spiral of unlimited growth; Wright, meanwhile, began designing a circular one, whose geometry was born on the ramps of the Gordon Strong Planetarium, then continued flipping the volume and creating a downward helical path where form and function are one.
- Subjects
ARCHITECTURAL museums; MODERN architecture; ZIGGURATS; SPIRALS; LE Corbusier, 1887-1965; WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959; ARCHITECTURE exhibitions
- Publication
Revista de EGA, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 31, p44
- ISSN
1133-6137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4995/ega.2017.8863